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Gather
Word docs, audio, and/or scheduled 1-hour interview sessions (recorded & transcribed)
Your life, in lasting form
Everyone has a story.
Who will tell yours?
We turn the moments, people and places that shaped you into a finished memoir book — made with care, and made to be kept.
A modern writing studio with old-fashioned editorial standards.
A thoughtful process, from first memory to final page. 30% deposit via Stripe; work starts when it clears or at the first session.
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Something worth holdingStories become more precious when they have a place to live.
Not a journal.
A real book.
Your life is full of the details only you can remember: the kitchen you grew up in, the person who changed everything, the hard-won wisdom you carry now.
Life Story Memoirs is a guided, human-led way to gather those memories and shape them into a beautifully written, deeply personal life story — real, or tastefully embellished, always true to the heart of it.
The Studio Method
Four considered steps
to your story.
Start with Word docs, audio, and/or scheduled 1-hour interview sessions, recorded & transcribed. Session banks and revision rounds remain as listed in each package.
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Compose
Our proprietary writing system shapes material into chapters in the client’s voice.
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Refine
Every page reviewed and polished by a human editor before the client sees it.
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Approve
Included revision rounds, then print/digital.
How we write
A clear process,
a deeply human finish.
Most life stories stall because raw memories aren’t a book yet. We built a proprietary writing system that turns interviews, documents, and recordings into clear, natural prose — the kind that sounds like a person, not a template. Then a human editor works the manuscript end to end: structure, voice, pacing, and the details that make it feel true. You stay in control through scheduled revisions. What you receive is a finished memoir meant to be kept.
Crafted with our proprietary writing system, then finished under full human editorial care.
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Clear, natural prose
We shape interviews, documents, and recordings into writing that sounds like a person, not a template.
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Your voice, kept intact
We polish the telling without sanding away the character, humour or hard-earned truth.
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Editorial care, end to end
A human editor reviews structure, voice, pacing, and the details that make the story feel true.
Ways to begin
Choose the shape
of your story.
Every life is different. These starting points give us a shared place to begin.
For a meaningful beginning
Essentials
$1,950 CAD
A focused story built around the memories you most want to keep.
- Client-supplied Word doc and/or audio
- 2× scheduled 1-hour interview sessions (recorded & transcribed)
- Short-form memoir, up to 50 pages
- 1 revision round
- One printed keepsake book
Most chosen
For the full story
Full Memoir
$3,950 CAD
A rich, finished life story with room for all the chapters that made you.
- Client-supplied Word doc and/or audio collection
- 5× scheduled 1-hour interview sessions (recorded & transcribed)
- Full-length memoir, up to 150 pages
- 2 revision rounds
- Two printed keepsake books
For generations to come
Legacy Family
$6,500 CAD
A multi-voice family archive, made to be read around the table.
- Family-supplied materials and photo guidance
- 10× scheduled 1-hour interview sessions (recorded & transcribed)
- Expanded heirloom edition
- 3 revision rounds
- Five printed keepsake books
Prices are in CAD. Taxes extra if applicable.
Revision terms: Included revision rounds as listed; extra rounds are available for a fee. A round means one consolidated feedback list applied once. Feedback is due within 14 days, or that round is treated as accepted. New chapters, new people, or major scope changes are a change order, not a free revision. Interview sessions are scheduled 1 hour at a time. Extra interview sessions are $150 CAD each, scheduled in 1-hour blocks.
“In the summer of 1986, flying freight out of Howey Bay, I learned that a lake will tell you the truth if you give it time — and that a Beaver will forgive almost anything except hurry.”— From “Howey Bay Glass,” a sample memoir
A glimpse inside
Illustrative sample —
not a client story.
A lifelong bush pilot. Red Lake / Howey Bay. Floats, freight, and the summer of 1986 — written to show the kind of prose a finished memoir can hold.
Read the full sample chapter ↗The first page
Your story is already
worth telling.
Tell us a little about who you are, who the book is for, and what you hope it will hold.
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